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' e - | LIGHTNING KILLED HIM, Major Sloan Was Dead Before He Struck the Water. NORWALK, Conn., June 2.—Major Sivan, of the Old Guard, and a well-known man in New York, who| mrt hia death while out in a yacht dur-| Ing a ntorm which swept over the sound here yesterday, wan not drowned, na at first reported, but was kilied by a flash of Mgntning. ‘An examtnaticn of the body made at a local undertaker's to-day discloned the fact that his head wax furrowed along | the acalp by a deep, pecullar wound ex- | tending across the entire toy of the) head. That he was dead before he fell into the water Is considered certain. “mmediately after the storm broke | natining struck a large tree and also | a bathhouse on the ahore of Keyser's | Irtand. Singularly enough, while Iightning caused Major Si ae h, it saved the, other members of th yA number | 8, driven {the party on the small nallboat, | the storm. Willlim Edwards, \ travelling snles- man and friend of Major Sloan, sald to- day that Major Sloaa, a young woman, anot fend ant himrelf went into| the cabin when the storm broke, ‘The Doat capsized and Capt. Charlen Row- land managed to save all except the | 4 Maj iven the captain did not know that the reason he could not save Major Sloan Wag because he had been killed by Hghtning before the voat capsized. Singular as it may seem, no other member of the party felt the effects of the bolt, nor was the boat injured. i Edwards says that Capt. Rowland, | the young (woman and himaeif and | friend would certainly have been | defelejefeflet ‘ J had It not been for the efforts of 1 Jesult priests who live on! ‘The myatery surrounding the disap Kevecr in taend in a fetreas wnawn at | pearance of pretty Cornelia Mitchell ; Mi the strugaliig party at tie] the sixteen-year-old girl who disap-/ r {the tempest “and cared for] peared from her parent's home, No. at them eileen tenths 5 4 Mande ltd that the handsome: Vn Buren street, Brooklyn, on th oung woman who Wasa member of the Might of June § last, was partly cleared party wax not Major Sloan's daughter, up to-day. It came out that the younk put his flancee. “They were to have been gtr] was in love with a young man whol fused to give her name. He admitted is the sun of a wealthy commission that she had gone to New York last mercaant Sloan'n body, 1t is expected, wilt| ON the ntght of Cornelian dinappaar- » hin home in Brooklyn to-day,| ance she had no money and took no Tt was not disfigured. save for the pecu. Mar scalp wound where the Hghtning | truck Alm. —————_ HUSBAND FOUND HER DEAD. errr YOUNG GIRL IS ODDLY MISSING. clothes with her, and the first her parents heard of her after t in the form of a special delivery letter which they received the following Sun-| It the girl sakl she had Joined a theatrical troupe and was day morning. Cornelia Mitchell Disappears and Parents Have No Trace of Her. CORNELIA MITCHELL. ae In Stowe Took an Overdose of|0n her way to Buffalo, where the show % was to open. Mrs. Mitchell notitled the Ri cane enue me Q 1] Ballce, and the police of Buffalo were Lee eee ato ae ent Bane | Notified, but they could And no trace of rites 7 208t | the irl there, dee re aan dicho hag | When nen to-tay by an Eywning “all a doctor for her, returned, | World reporter Mra. Mitchell sat to call overdone of mor- Her husband ways it was accl- dental, The woman hax been a suf- ferer from dropsy for years and it Is nald had acquired the morphine habit. nine. to Cornelia. “My daughter and a young man Kept company until lant fall, in November and asked my consent to hin becoming engaged He came to me £ told him I ‘Mked him well enough and I thought he would make a good hus- band, but he could never marry my daughter ax he war a Protestant and we are Catholles, ‘This led to a quarrel tween the young peopte and I did not re him after that. “About four or fly nella's dixappearance one of her girl {rlende came into the house and said that a person wanted to see her on the corner, She came tack and said it was dayn before Cor- nd last| the young man and that they had quar- I afterward learned that ompanted by another man it wan this same man who house a couple of days af- ed again was am su me to m ter and said he wanted to see Cornelia. He wald he was a theatrical agent and had a vod place for Cornelia, He eemed to be jacking very much on the atrical matters. He did know a go0 deal about medicine, however.” - The police of the Ralph aynue ata- tin said that when tne father of the girl firat-reported her disappearance he poke of a young man, but when he ked for more facts in the caxe he could not tell enough to warrapt the man's arrest, THE ULL TENTS REY. DR MOMEN REINSTATED Is First Rebuked, How- ever, by the Brook- lyn Presbytery. With hin head between his hands and bowed in th deepest humility Rev, Dr. Alfred Hf. Moment, former pastor of the Emmanuel 2 th m his on Church, conferred 9 Brooklyn Presbytery met at the ry him of «and contumacy. Dr. nit cons wed his faults and eapresset hte sorrow in a of Py dejection ‘The trial was conseat eld in } abeyance, | no the Presbytery was ready to | ve him. Dr. Moment nted a ment, in which he made veral adibastor Speakt abo e charge of untruchfulness, auld tyat it was & misunderstanding. ning the charge contumacy He ads the action was a mistaken one. mitted wan wrong in preaching at the Emmanuel Churen when hin sus- is un- pension expired. He expressed feigne! sorrow and sald that tt was not in extenuation but in explanation. He 5 he realyned from Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, that the resignation was not ac ted owlng to a deat: on the part of Vestry to Inspect the minutes of the under which he was sus- stated that on De the but the proceedings pended. Dr. Moment satd: “Lam absolutety innocent of any im- moraitty in its Krosser form. L du con- fess to certain conduct that was unbe-, coming a minister of the gospel without any realization at the time that the con- duct was reprehensible in ttself. No thought of evil was in my mind at the time, and at first 1 was shocked and stupefed to see, that upon relating It to others, they deemed It ensible, “Tam heartily griev@d for anything in my conduct that may have brought eorrow to the Church of Christ and to any of my brethren, and for this 1 earnestly beg the pardon of the Presb: and the Church, For my faults in 1 have suffered.” for many years been Brooklyn Presbyter. ry th Dr. Moment has a member of the fe in thought that he whl be allowed to ree tie Presbytery went Inte sen- sion this afternoon | two res were offered adopted unan The frat was to the effect that Moment be nudlicty rebuked. This fone by Dr Carson, the Moderate Conformation of the ritual Church. The second. reator ment. to full standing in th nid. Presbytery. wa Ete wan very affecting, many of the members who e known DD. Moment for a life speaking words of kindness In his behalf. Garbage Barrels in Gay Ribbons. MOUNT JEWETT, Pa., June 24.—The Village Improvement Society. composed ¢ women, have decorated the garbage barrels with gay ribbons and a Vigilance Committea has been appointed to keep the-streete clean. POLAR BEAR HT MAL BD Park Animal Grabbed the Hand that Fed Him Peanuts. When little Willle Schweitzer, who 1s only five years old, walked by the cage of the big polar bear In Central Park to-day ho poked a chubby hand filed with peanuts through the bare, The old bear was dipping his paw in the water ax if he was trying to catch @ fish. “Oh, look at him," erted Wille, and be threw the peanuts Into the cage, er toward them CITY 10 BLAME FOR EXPLOSION. ———-—- Jury Foreman Says. Enforcement of Laws in Paterson Too Lax, An Investigation of certain city de- partments of Paterson, N. J. low the Coroner's inquest Into the fire- works explosion in which sixteen per- sons lost their lives. Alderman Laing, may fol- who 1a foreman of the Coroner's jury, ‘discussing the re- sponalbility for the fatality to-day, had The bear rolled o' peanuts, clummlly put them | waa reat fun. | “['m going to fecd him out of my | hand.” said Willle. Three peanuts were He held! all Mla fingers could encircle. Nke a drunkeo satlor, and picking up (he Into mouth. Willle laughed and his father, who, stood by hin side, also tao. his this to may: “Tv clty has been too lax In the Past In enforcing the ordinances. Some one Is responsible for this disaster, and that person must be found. The killing of so many persons In their homes 14 @ lesson to the men at the head of the lelty goveenment. If this thing hap- jbened in New York State some one ‘ ‘ them out toward the bear, which came over to the edge of the cage. Ht rubbed his cold nose against the boy’ hand and got the peanuts. This was Breat sport. But the next ume Wille felt a Iittle playful. fe put out the peanuts and Just as the bear was about fo take them jerked his hand awa: The bear wniffed and looked mad. Willle @ud his father laughed. Again the boy feted !t. ‘The bear gave a sudden vicious snatch. Hei caught Willle's hand with his sharp teeth. They tore the skin bad- ly and Willle drew out ix hand bleeding, would be In Jail. cases like this ta too slow. “It is time to act, and I think the men with me on this jury agree on tht point." Coroner Yi inquiry to-da; Annie Lannigan The jurors are al New Jersey ji ice In tee and a jury began the by viewing the body of one of the victims. men of standing and declare themrelves determined to make a full and searching investigation. They are Joseph Laing, Alderman and Chairman of the Police Committee; ex- | Coroner J, D, 8. Goodridge; ex-Judge The boy's father armed. Me | Joseph Morelly; Lawyer Adam Jeffrey, called a policeman from the Arsenal,| F. FE. Beggs and James Denton, Tax and a Presbyterian Hospital ambulance | Assessor and Supervisor of the New was summoned. The doctor dreswed the child'n hand and he was taken ‘to the hospital. There it was learned that the wound wae quite serious, The boy lives with his parents at No. 1% Scholvs street, Brooklyn. ————— FROM WATER JOYS TO JAIL. Tex Boys Ruminate in After a Sunday sim, Ten w urchins stood before Magistrate Naumer in the Myrtle Ave- nue Court to-day charged with awim- ming on Sunday in Wallabout Basin, There were forty boys in the water when a squad of policemen from the Clermont uvenue station swooped down on them and contiecated the clothing of the ten, ‘The boys had to follow their togs, and spent the night in cells, After a lecture the Mngiatrate discharged them. Mee Cell Fourth-of-Jaly Oom fi OMAHA, June 24.—A yellow dog, with his tall, rushed into St. Andrew's Afri- can Church yesterday and broke up the rreeting. Shirt-Wa' PHILADELPHIA, June 31.—This lice was posted yesterday over the en- trance of Chestnut Hill Park, and a bunch of popping firecrackers tled on | polle A t | Jersey State cennus, A jury before Ji Supreme Court, t Railway | GOT $2,500 FOR SHOCK. farlem Man Who Stepped on Trol- ley Track Sued for 920,00 lee Glegerich, in the day returned a ver- dict awarding Louls Ludwig, $2,500 dam- ages in hin sult against the Metropol- ftan Street In the winter of 1899 Ludwig while on hia way home one evening stepped on the tracks of the Metropolitan system at One Hundred and Sixteenth strect and Second avenue. electric shock and was thrown violently, to the ground, breaking his lex. Ludwig brought sult for’ 20,00 dam- ages against the company, alleging nex- gence, Company, a BHIRT-WAl Mi He received an no- the Justice Maclean, in the Supreme Court, has, upon the appilcation of the {Countess Festéticn, ixeued a writ of habean corpus directing Count Gyula de | Festetics to produce in court the body of his son Dwight. In her application for the writ the Countess ways that her husband is re- straining her son from hie Nberty and that he ts not’a fit person to, have charge of the little fellow, She saya that under articles of sepa- ratlon entered Into between herself and her humband about a year ago abe was ha permanent possess of the Several daya ago the Count secured Porconaion ot litte Dwight and nothing has bee! ween of him since by the mother, C, 8, Schurz is attorney for Countess Featetics, It is delleved that the Count In at Belmar, N. J. Domestic trouble long brewing brought the Festetics into court «ome time ago. ‘The Count was sentenced to one year in prinon for beating his wife, but at her request sentence wan suspended Articles of separation were drawn up [COUNTESS FESTETICS SEEKS TO GET HER CHILD. Justice MacLean, of the Supreme Court, Issues | Writ of Habeas Corpus Against Husband. Countess to have the custody of; Dwight, their son, then three years old, The Count t to work and Invented 4 process of gold enamelling, and sud it recently, It Is sald, for # fortunh to Wentern capitalists. “He tsb have this money now. ‘Then he ¢urned his the wife and child.” Se were drawn up permitting him the boy on Sundays and at a during the week. ‘The t alg tt dn maid, mission to visit the ehtid ‘There negotiations were I Fenteticn by Louls A. Grelling, | of Heltman, who claimed to represent the Western’ capitalista, who were anxious that Featettcs’s mind be undisturbed by aration from his child that the in- ventor might perfect hin process, The representation that her husband wax distracted over being ki t om hin ron and, In conseqt not attend to hie work, won, th y of the Countess and induced her naent to hie taking the’ child for one night Warren C. Van Slyke. a lawyer, of 4 Pine street, called upon District: rey Philbin’ thie afternoon and Urget him to present chary the Grand Jury in order to h Featettes Indicted for kidnapping. Mr, Philbin aaid that he would take the matter under advisement and con- sider the evidence in the ense. to Count de FOUND HER FRIEND DEAD. Mrs. McKee Wrote Let- ter and Turned on | the Gas. Mrs, Alice McKee, a widow, forty-five years old, Iving in the DeWitt: Apart- ment-House, at Columbus avenue and Bixty-aixth street, was found dead in her apartments this morning. She had committed suteide by inhaling {Numinat- Ing gus. Mra, Charles L. Hall, of 200 Weat One Hundred an@ Fourth street, received a etter from Mra, McKee last Saturday asking her to come to the apartmenta to-day and bring her “work” with her, meaning some sewin, ‘at the place at 11 o'cloek. She wont to the apartments of Mra, Meee on the second floor and found the door to the dining-room open. Entering the dining- room, Mra. Hall found two letters on the table. One was addressed to her and the other was addressed to a aleter of Mrs, McKee in Rocheater, N. Y. In the letter to Mrs, Hall Mrs. Me- Kee wrote that she hoped God would Mra. Hall called (} her for what she had done, ) Hall went to the sleeping-room { Mre, McKee. The door was shut ned it and was almost overcome ndor of gas, Mrs. MoKee, partly was lying on the bed. In her dressed mouth was a rubber tube, the other end of which was affixed to a gaa jet Mra, MeKee formerly kept boarders, but a month ago she became very weak und gave un doing, this Several times she asked Mra, Fall to send” her re her old home, mains to Dryden, N. if she should suddenly die. 1 Was Cured by Dr. Koch's Inhalations, This te a pi ture of Kooh and the newly discov he reason I applied to the origi- nal Koch Lung Cure, at 48 W. 22d 8t.,” states Mr. James Allison, of 218 WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1901. |BARTENDERS BEWAILING i CASH REGISTERS’ CURSE. Say They Are Worked Too Hard Now that So OSLO PINAR ete reer sty Little Is Doing” in the Business. os rns qa“o Sor ( Kune AY ir s ender. Overworked Ta ders of New York came on ning, changed their wtoon clean Jackets for t ‘Then they studied the | wo Hay and logkel ar In a piece them The barte Watch thin shoes and; Week, te usua rhea at 3 er the pap this pursuit their eyex took of news from Hoston that cau to sit up and take notice, tenders’ Unton N they read biish a working | hourn in the lquor rs for ts saloone of Boston.” If there wan n bartender in town wh did not feel elated over thie piece of in- formation tt was because he didn't know about It, The experiment in Boston wi! be watched with Interest by the New York dvink-mixers. If the spectacted dilletantes who nel varnish and acid In whiskey xlaexen over the Hoxton bars win thelr fight for shorte urs ther short-haired New York brethren will tn- Augurate a almilar conteat “TL don't know whether [t would do any goad at that,” sald one of the of- fleera of the focal unton sadly, to-day. “The business ain't what It used to be." mallgnity that was terrifying, ‘That's what kills the rum business STABBED BY HIS FRIEND. Arferio Used Stiletto en DI During Petty Vineindo Di Nuct. = day at his home, Tiller avenue and | Potter place. Bronx, by a companion, | etta Arter. | tferlo Was arrested. ‘The men had quarrelled over sume tgiiling matter, Di Nucla ie not seriously Injured war atabt DISAPPEARANCE OF MERCHANT. Wiltsee’s Relatives Fear He Is Unbalanced by Wall Street Losses. Weak and Digestion Poo: Dr, Hartandson, whose ts worthy | woman |Reation, loss, of appent | belching, sour, watery rising, bead sleeplessness, ack of ambition and eral run-down, nervous condition, | that the food Is a has time to sour and ferment. Teas wil digest the feod anyway, the stomach wants to oF not, pecau police to-day that he has been missing | for more than E aw talo ‘nothing hartnful in the gree; on the contrary, wny ach ia at all deranged will find great from the use of Stuart's Dyspepala T They will cure any form Reea or diseaan except cancer of t awh. What S.S.S. Does for Children. Children are constantly exposed to all sorts of dis- eases. The air they breathe is filled with germs, sewer gas and dust from the filthy streets are inhaled into the lungs and taken into the blood. At the crowded school rooms and other public places they come in contact almost daily with others recovering from or in the first stages of contagious diseases, You can't quarantine against the balance of the world, and the best you can .do is to keep their blood in good condition, and thus prevent or at least mitigate the disease. You have perhaps learned from observation or experience that healthy, robust children (and this means, of course, children whose blood is pure) are not nearly so liable to contract diseases peculiar to them, and when they do it is generally in a mild form, On the other hand, weak, emaciated and sickly ones seem to catch every disease that comes along. This cause their blood is lacking in all the clemen' sary to sustain and build up the bod Po every description accumulate in the system, because wore a blue serge coat, black veat wit dark white polka dots, patent-lenther shoes. When he left hia home he had about $i In money, troune s and york. Wholesome Advice For People Whose Stomachs Are Relativen of James H. Wiltsee, a (hem to take after each meal uneof two Of prod e cha Si Stuart’ pepala “‘ablets allowing th COSI CTY URES OR a CO tablet to dissolve in the mouth, and thu Quincy street, Hrooklyn, reported to the | mingle with the fox eaten. The reault edily digested bef hess man, lost a Kreat deal of money: in| NDIE Just what the weak stomach ks Wall atreet, 20 hia relatives think, and| oi have advised the tableta with great a cous, both in curing Indigestion they fear it may have caured nim to) vulld up the timues, increasing di anilerkueas’ in, ymervous patlenta, ‘whowe, real ‘ : Yapepela, and as soon as the stomach He wan seen by friends on New streo:, put Hi rights they dit hot know what this borough, on Wednesday, and on | nicki el staat Thursday last at Myrtle avenve Suaht at any dene Adama rtreet, Hrooklyn. He appeared not w secret patent to be In hia usual mental condition. 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